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Montevideo, November 5th 2024 - 09:32 UTC

Tag: Jacob Zuma corruption

  • Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 21:41 UTC

    Former South African President ordered back to jailhouse

    Zuma may still file an appeal before the Constitutional Court

    Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been ordered back to jail after the Supreme Court overturned his medical parole earlier this week. Zuma had been sentenced to 15 months in jail for refusing to testify in a government inquiry into a corruption case.

  • Friday, February 16th 2018 - 09:48 UTC

    South Africa's Zuma steps down: ignominious end for a clepto president

    Zuma, disgraced, will depart the presidency nine years after he was elected. He now faces prosecution and is likely to be ostracized by the party

    President Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s fourth democratic head of state, resigned on Wednesday amid an acrimonious battle for control of the nation and the governing party, the African National Congress. He told South Africans during a late-night televised address that, although he disagreed with the decision by the ANC to remove him, he would leave “with immediate effect.”